With all of the options now days for skin care products on the market now this book is a must have. It goes in depth to explain to you all of the ingredients on the back of the packages to give you a better idea of just what you are putting on your skin. Some companies like to tell your their product is safe for you, your skin, and even the environment, and while some are telling the truth, others have included ingredients in the fine print that we have no idea what they are or how healthy they are for us and the world.

This book lets you know about each ingredient. It also tells you the best way to use products and if you use more than one which are ok to mix and match, and which you should not. It also comes with some DIY recipes, so you know exactly what you are putting on your skin.

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I received a copy of this book for a fair and honest review. I picked to read this book because I have sensitive skin and sometimes things in my local stores damage and hurt my skin. I wanted ways to make my own at home. I gives me natural ways to take care of my skin. It makes me feel so good and that is what makes me happy to have found this book. I like all the recipes they are simple and easy to make. The book is easy to follow and has other resources that help you along the way. That makes me happy that I came across it.

This is a very helpful and informative guide about skin care. I like the DIY recipes and the guidelines for figuring out what your skin really needs in order to stay healthy and beautiful.

~I received this ARC in exchange for a honest review.~

Absolutely amazing! As a skin care and makeup junkie, this book is a God send. It's so incredibly detailed and we'll researched that I'm sure it's going to become a staple book on my shelf that I will reach for time and time again.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who loves skin care or just wants to learn more about what you're putting on your face.

As someone with sensitive skin and light adult acne I think this book is awesome. There are so many ingredients that are "good" or just "acceptable" for your skin. It's nice to know what they have the potential to do. It's better than having to guess. I Google every cosmetic and skincare product I use before purchasing it because I've struggled for so long. This book breaks it down for you.

Loved this!

I know enough about beauty and skincare to get me by, but there's a lot that I needed help with. One of my favorite things were the ingredients to look out for, the ones that are harmful but in so many products. I look at labels all the time but it's like reading another language to me, I have no idea what any of them mean and it can get overwhelming.

This book offered advice, information, and things to help with skin problems we all go through.

Recommend!

This book is both a reference guide and an interesting read. I loved learning all about skin and what the different types of skin care is needed for your current skin condition or problem.

The Title says it all The Beauty Geeks Guide to Skin Care! I have always struggle with my skin and how to care for it because of all the different products and cost of the products. Now with girls and boy who need to start taking care of their skin I am surrounded by endless ads and having no idea which really works and which is just a scam.

Deborah Burnes pretty much dumb down skin care without telling readers your stupid for not trying this before.
She makes it simple and easy without readers spend a insane amount of money on their skin. The author keeps it simple and everything readers need is in this book.
This is a keeper!
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance copy of Deborah Burnes The beauty Geeks guide to Skin.

This book is a wealth of information. It’s well-researched and the author very clearly “shows her work” with read studies and science. So much of what we see out in the world about cosmetics and skincare “rules” is really just marketing nonsense. It leaves it up to us as co summers to educate ourselves on what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s plain dumb. This book is one I know I will reference often and I’m glad I have it.

Become your own personal care advocate! We spend so much money on products that we have no idea what they are (nor can we pronounce them). As with our food, anything you put on your body should be ones that are healthy. The author gives several recipes and places where you can purchase items. Ms. Burnes does suggest you have a friend or two go in together to create your own products and that’s good advice as some of those items are on the expensive side. I’d be interested if this would work on those who have autoimmune skin problems, e.g. Cutaneous Lupus.
I received an arc from NetGalley in exchange for my honest and volunteer review.

If you are at all concerned about the ingredients in your skin care products, then this book will be a great resource for you. The definitions section of the book is packed with potential ingredients and explains what they are, what they do, and whether or not they are harmful and helpful. It's a dictionary of skin care. In addition, the author goes through the steps of a good skin care routine and an explanation of why skin care is so important not just for surface appearances but for your overall health. While I haven't tried the recipes they look like they would be straightforward and easy to replicate with the right ingredients. I think this is a book I will keep going back to whenever I come across and ingredient I'm not familiar with.

The Beauty Geek’s Guide to Skin Care is full of useful information if you are looking to learn more about what you are putting on your skin. The book is split into four sections: The Business of Skin, Caring for You Skin, Ingredient and Term Definitions, and DIY Skin Care Recipes.

I really enjoyed Deborah Burnes' Introduction as she talks about skin care in layman’s terms. Whether you know what steps to follow in a skincare routine or you have no idea what a toner is, the introduction is very insightful. I also like how she draws parallels between one’s skin’s health and one’s mental health. She also makes a great point that, “I want to begin by making an important distinction: Not all things that are natural are good for you, and not everything that’s synthetic is inherently toxic.” You can learn more about that when Deborah goes on to speak about the ingredients and the information about them.

In the section of Business of Skin she discusses different skin types and makes the point that we should not be pigeonholing ourselves into one group (normal, oil, dry, or combination); our skin is constantly changing. She then goes on to speak about common skin issues and different ingredients you can try to calm the symptoms.

When it comes to the listing of all the ingredients, I was surprised at just how many there were. Deborah does a great job of giving a brief synopsis of each on and I love how she is never pushy with her information. She is simply providing you with the information and you can do with it what you will.

The best is that at the very end, she gives ten DIY recipes, most of the ingredients you may even have laying around the house. I would highly recommend this book, especially if you are starting to be more aware of what you are putting on your skin.

This is a really great guide to reading the labels on beauty and personal care products. I really strive to "do no harm" to my skin but I definitely don't know all the harm that could be hiding in those pretty little packages.
This book gives an overview of skin from a biology-lite perspective which is a great refresher and lets the reader know why they should take care of their skin.

Without a doubt the best feature of the book, and the reason to have it handy (probably a e-version for access during shopping) is the dictionary of common (and not so common) ingredients. It has a little blurb about a LOT of possible ingredients so you can know more about the ingredients you are considering slathering all over yourself. The book does have a few "lookout for" type suggestions, but largely lets you, the reader decide on what is good/needed for your skin type. I like that you get a definition of what ingredients are and how they can affect you or the product without a lot of hard lines like "only buy this" or "never use this" which you see in magazines a lot.

It also includes a section in the back with a few DIY ideas. For me, this would have been more useful if the ingredients were more common in the everyday home.

This book is fantastic and jammed pack with information. The author starts out explaining our skin and how it works, common problems and explains how to take care of our skin. I loved that the author explained how important it also is to eat well, get enough sleep and basically take care of yourself holistically to help with your skin too.

The bulk of the book is a long list of ingredients, listed A-Z that are commonly found in skin care products. After each ingredient the author explains what it is, how it's used and if it can be helpful or harmful to you skin. For fun I took one of my skin care products that is considered more natural (but still has a lengthy list of ingredients) and went through and looked up each ingredient in the book. Thankfully they were all ones deemed to be OK, not harmful and are helpful for the skin however it took quite some time looking it up!

I do love that the author is not preaching and her goal is to share the information so that each person can make their own informed decision. It is overwhelming how many skin products are available but it is comforting to have this knowledge now to help me when I am making future selections on skin care products. The author also included several DIY recipes at the end and I look forward to trying them soon!

Thank you to Netgalley and Rockridge Press for an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

The Beauty Geek's Guide to Skin Care is a new encyclopedia and guide to common ingredients included in commercial beauty product formulations. Author Deborah Burnes is a model, lifestyle and beauty blogger who became a natural beauty advocate after searching for healthy alternatives to commercially available products for her own use.

Due out 4th June 2019 from Rockridge Press, it's 190 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. The ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references in the index.

The book is split into four sections. The first segment (5% of the content) includes a pretty good layman accessible discussion of the physiological properties of skin; how skin works, what it's comprised of, and what it needs to function optimally. Throughout the book, highlighted information is provided in sidebars and bullet lists.

The second chapter (also about 5%) includes a short section about how to care for your skin, developing and maintaining an effective skincare regimen, and contains a good sidebar with a bullet list of helpful and harmful environmental and dietary factors.

The bulk of the book's content (86%) is used on an alphabetical listing of ingredients with a short definition of the uses and some of their properties.

The final section includes an abbreviated list of DIY beauty product recipes. Each of the recipes includes the ingredients, and properties/uses as well as yield and storage information.

This is an interesting and appealing guide to taking control of the beauty products we use on and in our bodies. The language is completely layman accessible and it's not necessary to have a degree in advanced chemistry to understand the information provided.

Five stars. Lots of useful info here. There are online search engines available but this is one of the few layman accessible books with info on the subject with which I'm familiar.

This book is bursting with information yet doesn’t read completely like a textbook, which means that it’s both a reference guide and an interesting read. Just giving the definitions without first expanding on the importance of knowing them was what I was sort of expecting, so I was pleasantly surprised that was not the case. Burnes takes the time so that anyone who picks this book up can understand why certain things are better for better skin types, as well as all of the reasons skin care is so important. There are even some excellent DIY at the end so that one can create their own skin care products.